L'un des complices (apparemment un lampiste, puisque son collègue et son supérieur, eux aussi impliqués, ont été acquittés faute de preuves…) a été condamné à 3 ans de prison.
Il n'aurait touché aucune rémunération pour sa participation.
Le "refugié" quant à lui est au Canada,….. et libre!
Standard de Hong Kong du 19 octobre :
Citation:
Airport worker jailed for 'old man' smuggling ruse
Diana Lee
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
A former airport worker was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday for helping to smuggle mainlanders to other countries, including a young mainlander who got to Canada last year by impersonating an elderly Caucasian with the help of a silicone mask.
District Court judge Albert Wong Sung-hau said a deterrent sentence had to be imposed even though Chau Pak- kin, 27, who then worked for Singapore Air Terminal Services, is not the mastermind or a core member of the human smuggling syndicate.
He said many countries had taken measures to combat terrorism and that Chau's action had, in effect, circumvented them and increased flight-safety risks.
"He turned a blind eye to what's going on. There is no evidence to suggest he gained from his act. Yet he acted as the gatekeeper. Without his involvement, the syndicate would not have succeeded," Wong said.
The judge also said Chau had breached the trust of his employer by allowing a syndicate to place unauthorized persons on various flights.
In mitigation, Chau submitted a letter to court saying he was sorry for causing his family trouble and that he had not profited from the crime.
His family members were also in court to show support.
The court heard earlier that Chau told police during a video interview that he was told by his supervisor to ignore or turn a blind eye to suspicious travel documents. He was convicted on one count of conspiracy to obtain services by deception between March 1 and December 16 last year.
A colleague who was charged with Chau was acquitted on Monday because of insufficient evidence. The supervisor who Chau alleged instructed him to turn a blind eye was not charged. The prosecution said the investigation will continue.
Chau was responsible for scanning travellers and giving them passes to board Air Canada flights.
The prosecution alleged he was involved in two of four cases of unauthorized boarding by mainlanders using forged travel documents.
In one of the cases, on October 29 last year, a young man, reportedly from Fujian, used the silicone mask to disguise himself as an elderly Caucasian and the passport of a US resident to board the flight.
The mainlander, only referred to as "X" during the trial, sought asylum in Canada after arriving in Vancouver.